Daily Learning Target(s): By the end of the week, students will be able to...

  • analyze new vocabulary as evidenced by completing practice exercises.
  • practice the skill of description and analysis as evidenced by writing journal entries for the junior portfolio.
  • practice the skill of analysis by completing error correction.
Homework Due Today:
  • None.

Homework:

Due Fri 4/11: VERT Vocabulary Flashcards/Study for Quiz
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Important Deadlines/Reminders:
  1. Meeting with counselors on Friday to schedule next year's classes.
  2. Have handouts, binder paper, journals, writing utensils, and classwork with you every day
  3. American Masters summative re-take is on BLOCK DAY.

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  • What is realism and how did it influence texts?
  • How is personal narrative writing important to the junior portfolio?
Agenda
  1. Learning Logs: Update every day with homework, reminders, andessential questions.
  2. American Masters Error Analysis
  3. Journals: "I Laugh When I Remember"
  • We change as time passes, our personalities, our confidence, our views on life. Sometimes we can laugh at ourselves as think back.
Writing Prompt: I laugh at myself when I remember....

  1. Title, Date.
  2. Write for the entire time, keep your pencil/pen moving.
  3. Write a full page or more.
  4. Count your words and put the total at the top.